Word: motherism
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...Laughs.] That's like asking a mother who her favorite kid is. She knows, but she ain't telling...
...life had a bitter beginning--most likely, her mother was killed by hunters in West Africa, who then sold the orphaned chimp to a dealer. She was taken to the U.S. by the Air Force and used in space research. But when Washoe began living with a human family, her tremendous potential began to show. By age 5, the chimpanzee was famous as the first animal ever to learn sign language; she eventually acquired a vocabulary of about 250 signs. Was she merely reacting to prompts, or was she really communicating? That question is still unresolved, even after she passed...
That's my mother's given name. Actually, it goes back to my ancestor Lord North, possibly the worst politician in the history of England. He's the one who blew the Colonies. I come by my interest in feckless politics honestly...
That's my mother's given name. Actually, it goes back to my ancestor Lord North, possibly the worst politician in the history of England. He's the one who blew the Colonies. I come by my interest in feckless politics honestly...
Middleton sexed language, and languaged sex, more comprehensively and creatively than any other writer in English. His sex is never just sex: it can be fun, funny, sad, repellent, lyrical, satirical; it entangles bodies in psychology, politics, ethics, religion. Middleton dramatized incest, an adult son obsessed with his mother's sexuality, a husband happily pimping his wife, a husband literally selling his wife, a husband brutally raping his wife. He wrote of transvestism, stalking, sexual blackmail, castration, impotence, masochism, necrophilia and an adulteress forced to eat her lover's corpse...